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Brief History Of The Religious And Military Order Of The Knights Templars Of St. John Of Jerusalem.
text for this hasty step , he contrived one of such a nature as should " give him sufficient grounds for preserving his hatred oflhe Military Orders . He caused it to be reported that the Templars and Hospitallers , from their attachment to the Holy Sec , had consulted with the Sultan of Egypt a plan for delivering him up as a prisoner , while he should be bathing in the River Jordan . Frederichaving
con-, cluded a truce with the Infidels , returned tq Sicily early in the year 1229 . In the year following he was reconciled to tiie Church on sundry conditions , one of wliich was to repair the damages he had cau-. ' ed to be done to the Templars and Hospitallers . He retained , however , the greatest animosity against those bodies to the last stage ofhis life , and thev suffered from him repeated mortifications
arid insults . After the Emperor ' s departure , the Christians in Palestine had no other defenders than the Military Orders , one or other of which was always in the field . In the year 1239 , the Templars suffered a severe defeat from the superior numbers of the Sultan of Aleppo , which-threw the Eastern Christians into such a consternationthat succours fiom Europe were again urgently solicited . A
, small supply from England was all that they received . About this time the Templars entered into an alliance with the Emir of Carac against the Sultan of Egypt ; but the Hospitallers , disgusted that this treaty should be negotiated without their concurrence , . not only refused to ' give any assistance , but broke into an open rupture with the Templars , which continued for a long time . Richard , Earl of
Corn-Vvail , brother to the King of England , ' at the head of some choice troops , arrived in Palestine about a year afterwards , and immediately settled a ' truce with the Sultan of Egypt , by which it was stipulated , that Jerusalem and the . adjacent places should be restored to the Christians . " The Templars , remembering their old grudge to the Hospitallers , refused to be included in tiie treaty . The Christians had scarce time to breathe from the fatigues of war before they were
assailed by a new enemy . These were the Corasmins , a barbarous people from Persia : roving about for a country to settle themselves in , they fell upon Palestine , at the adyice of the Sultan of Egypt . Intelligence of this irruption coming to Jerusalem , where the fortifications were in no state of forwardness-, the principal part of the inhabitants , escorted by the Knights , fled to Jaffa with their effects .
Those who foolishly remained in the city were put to death with unheard-of tortures . " To get rid of these intruders ' , the Templars called to their assistance their old allies , ' the Suitans of Damascus and Emessa . With the additional force thereby procured the Christians determined to risk a battle . The Hospitallers had the left wing , the Turcomans the rightand the Templars were in the centre . The
, Corasmins were near ten to one at the beginning of the engagement , and , to add to the misfortunes of the Christians , their Infidel friends for the most part ran away at ' the very ' outset . Notwithstanding these great disadvantages the battle lasted two days , and the Knights made prodigious slaughter among the barbarians . ' The Christian army , however , necessarily failed ; out of ail their force there onlv
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Brief History Of The Religious And Military Order Of The Knights Templars Of St. John Of Jerusalem.
text for this hasty step , he contrived one of such a nature as should " give him sufficient grounds for preserving his hatred oflhe Military Orders . He caused it to be reported that the Templars and Hospitallers , from their attachment to the Holy Sec , had consulted with the Sultan of Egypt a plan for delivering him up as a prisoner , while he should be bathing in the River Jordan . Frederichaving
con-, cluded a truce with the Infidels , returned tq Sicily early in the year 1229 . In the year following he was reconciled to tiie Church on sundry conditions , one of wliich was to repair the damages he had cau-. ' ed to be done to the Templars and Hospitallers . He retained , however , the greatest animosity against those bodies to the last stage ofhis life , and thev suffered from him repeated mortifications
arid insults . After the Emperor ' s departure , the Christians in Palestine had no other defenders than the Military Orders , one or other of which was always in the field . In the year 1239 , the Templars suffered a severe defeat from the superior numbers of the Sultan of Aleppo , which-threw the Eastern Christians into such a consternationthat succours fiom Europe were again urgently solicited . A
, small supply from England was all that they received . About this time the Templars entered into an alliance with the Emir of Carac against the Sultan of Egypt ; but the Hospitallers , disgusted that this treaty should be negotiated without their concurrence , . not only refused to ' give any assistance , but broke into an open rupture with the Templars , which continued for a long time . Richard , Earl of
Corn-Vvail , brother to the King of England , ' at the head of some choice troops , arrived in Palestine about a year afterwards , and immediately settled a ' truce with the Sultan of Egypt , by which it was stipulated , that Jerusalem and the . adjacent places should be restored to the Christians . " The Templars , remembering their old grudge to the Hospitallers , refused to be included in tiie treaty . The Christians had scarce time to breathe from the fatigues of war before they were
assailed by a new enemy . These were the Corasmins , a barbarous people from Persia : roving about for a country to settle themselves in , they fell upon Palestine , at the adyice of the Sultan of Egypt . Intelligence of this irruption coming to Jerusalem , where the fortifications were in no state of forwardness-, the principal part of the inhabitants , escorted by the Knights , fled to Jaffa with their effects .
Those who foolishly remained in the city were put to death with unheard-of tortures . " To get rid of these intruders ' , the Templars called to their assistance their old allies , ' the Suitans of Damascus and Emessa . With the additional force thereby procured the Christians determined to risk a battle . The Hospitallers had the left wing , the Turcomans the rightand the Templars were in the centre . The
, Corasmins were near ten to one at the beginning of the engagement , and , to add to the misfortunes of the Christians , their Infidel friends for the most part ran away at ' the very ' outset . Notwithstanding these great disadvantages the battle lasted two days , and the Knights made prodigious slaughter among the barbarians . ' The Christian army , however , necessarily failed ; out of ail their force there onlv